- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 5, 2025
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It is respectful, its every frame is visually intoxicating and it is layered with an awareness of what appeals to a modern TV audience.
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The advantage is that this version is more coherent and watchable, without ever being sugary or simplistic. The great story is intact, posing its evergreen questions - when it comes to tradition, where is the line between evolution and extinction? When it comes to power, where does pragmatism bleed into surrender? – for a new audience.
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As testaments to the flux of history go, The Leopard manages to be beautiful, engaging and suitably elegiac.
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You don’t have to be a geopolitical buff to note the parallels with current events, but to its credit The Leopard never lectures. Instead, the balance for director Tom Shankland (The Serpent) to strike is one between landscape and character.
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The Leopard is boring, with a large ensemble that blends into the background, except for the three main characters. It’s definitely a show about a part of history most people outside Europe know little about, and the show’s dullness will make it hard for people to connect to that story.